If you can write Perl code, take a look at LWP::UserAgent, HTML::TreeBuilder and HTTP::Cookies (if you need cookies) for it to work. I've used this to bulk retrieve information off a website (with permission) using forms, cookies etc.
Also, this article about WWW::Mechanize might interest you: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html Owen On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:34:47AM -0400, Mark Freeze wrote: > I am hoping someone can help me solve an issue we are having at work. > > In the course of a day, we have literally hundreds of account numbers > we look up on one of our vendors websites. We are usually just > looking for a particular status code. This process takes a huge > amount of time as the account numbers have to be entered one by one. > > What I am looking to do is to automate this process. I'd like to > create a text file of account numbers on my local system, log into the > website, and then have a script or something march through the account > numbers automatically, entering them on the vendor's form, retrieve > the results, and place them into another text file on the local > system. > > I have seen several companies on the internet that sell software to do > this, but I'd really like to write it myself. Can someone kick me in > the right direction of how to get started on this project? > > Thanks, > Mark. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
